878 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

838 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

obseurity or shine in want, ask Mr. Adams (meaning the said
President of the United States) whether it was proper to heap so
many myriads of dollars upon William Smith, upon a paper job-
ber, who next to Hamilton and himself (meaning the said President
of the United States) is perhaps the most detested character on
the continent” (meaning the United States of America), And also
the false, scandalous and malicions words of the tenor and effect
following: “You (meaning the people of the United States) will
then take your ehoice between innocence and guilt; between free-
dom and slavery—between paradise and perdition. You will then
ehuse between the man who has deserted and reversed all his prin-
ciples (meaning the said President) ‘and thet man whose own ex-
amples strengthen all bis laws—that man, whose predictions, like
those of Henry, have been converted into history. You will ehuse
between that man whose life is unspotted by a crime, and that man
(meaning the said President of the United States) whose hands are
reeking with the blood of the poor, friendless Connecticut sailor.
I see the tear of indignation standing on your cheeks! You (mean-
ing the people of the United States) anticipate the name of John
Adams (meaning the said President of the United States)” And
also the false, scandalous and malicious words of the tenor and
effert following, that is to say, “every feature of the conduct of
Mz. Adams (meaning the said President of the United States)
forms a distinct and additional evidence, that he was determined at
all events, to embroil this eountry with France:” And also the false
and scandalous words of the tenor and effect following, that is to
say, “Mr. Adams (meaning tho said President of the United States)
has’ only completed the scene of ignominy which Mr. Wasb-
ington began.” And also the false, seandalous and malicious words
of the tenor and effect following, that is to say, “This last presi-
dential (meaning the said President of the United States) felony
will be buried by Congress in the same criminal silence as its prede-
cessors,” And also, the words of the false, scandalous and mali-
cious tenor and effect following, that is to say, “Foremost in what-
ever is detestable, Mr. Adams (meaning the said President of the
United States) feels anxiety to enrb the frontier population.” And
also the false, seandalous, and malicious words, of the tenor and
effect following, that is to say, “He (meaning the said President
of the United States) was a professed aristocrat; he (meaning the
said President of the United States) had proved faithful and serv-
iceable to the British interest (inuendo) against the interest and
welfare of the United States of America.” And also the false,
seandalons, and malicious words, of the tenor and effect following,
that is to say, “Thus we see the genuine chataeter of the President
(meaning the said President of the United States) when in but a
secondary station, he (meaning the said President of the United
States) censured the funding system, when at the head of affairs,
he (meaning the said President of the United States) reverses all
his former principles, He [meaning the said President of the
United States] exerts himself (meaning the said President of the